The First Continental Congress, a brazen show of both defiance and union by the American colonies on the road to revolution, met on this day in history, Sept. 5, 1774. It was the first time many of ...
It appears that the colonists had far higher incomes in 1774 than previously thought, on average probably greater than England, the richest country in Europe. Between 1774 and 1800 American incomes ...
PHILADELPHIA (WCSC) - The First Continental Congress adopted a pivotal document that expressed the American colonies’ growing dissatisfaction with British statutes imposed on colonists. The ...
LENOX — Nine months before the first shots of the American Revolution were fired in Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, anti-British documents were being signed in Lenox, Sheffield and ...